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Thinking With... A Rhetorical Theory Podcast

by Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

“Thinking With..." is a pedagogical experiment that serves as an invitation to think along with the text, with us, and with each other. We are three academics who specialize in Rhetorical Theory: Nate DeProspo (Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College), John Muckelbauer (Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina), and Nathaniel Street (Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University).

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  1. S5 EP 12 - Plant Sex Everywhere

    Episode 12 – Plant Sex Everywhere! Gay Science Book 5 continued 0:30 – 1:50 – How to Lose Listeners 1:55 – 19:45 Nathaniel went on strike: normally likes complexity but sees the allure of dogmatic anger, though that is exhausting. Hard to find joy again; Booboo’s physical unhealth; reading N as...

  2. S5 EP 11 - The Gravity of Teaching (and its overcoming)

    00:30 – 1:55 Gay Science Book 5 (which we hardly mention) 2:05 - 30:00 the recurring end-of-semester dilemma; applying a policy vs. making a decision; “fairness” as a way to avoid making a decision?; the desire for a calculus; Nate tries to make John feel better; absolving oneself of the...

  3. S5 EP 10 - Endings and Eternal Re-turnings

    Gay Science – Book 4 continued 00:30-3:30 Quitting tobacco and scotch (or not); 3:38-13:45 Like the stoics; 308 – advice vs. diagnostics (both are actions); 301 and 306 – no blanket advice, it always depends on the style of life involved 14:00-28:45 Amor fati – enduring vs. affirming fate; not...

  4. S5 EP 9 - The Tone of Affirmative Thinking

    Episode 9 – The tone of affirmative thinking Gay Science Book 4 00:30-12:40 Nietzsche’s affirmative direction; 276; 307; reason is a symptom of a way of life; 278 – how great that we aren’t always honest, esp about death; 289 12:50- a delight in the prospect of becoming; joy of philosophizing as...

  5. S5 EP 8 - The Smell of Thinking

    Episode 8 - The Smell of Thinking End of Book3 00:30 - 4:00 section 213 cause and effects - cause is added later as an intervention; 4:00 - 18:15 Reading the short maxims vs. reading aphorisms; teaching. Section 192 on good natured people, Section 193 on Kant, section 195 - distilled. Like kafka...

  6. S5 EP 7 - Poly and Mono Theism

    Book 3 (again) 0- 3:15 Bad intros 3:20 - 16:00 Nietzsche’s materialist comedy; section 124 - the infinite; panic attacks - cognitive models vs. affective experiential; subjectivity; thinking as terror/comfort; what meaningless means; 16:00 - 39:20 section 143: advantages of polytheism; vs....

  7. S5 EP 6 - Shadows of God

    §108-125 0- 3:00 Podcasting and Romance; new intros; 3:00- 22:40 Book 3 Gay Science §108— The Death of God; theology of atheism; §109 anthropomorphism and will to power; the need for error life v knowledge ; §110 22:42 - 41:55 John’s “famous” saber tooth tiger anecdote; the recurring problem of...

  8. S5 EP 5 - Responding to Nietzsche's "Woman"

    0:00–14:25 The sections on “woman” are not distinct from the rest of the book; §68 “Will and Willingness” §64 “Skeptics” superficiality of existence ; the feminine operation and the body marked by the feminine operation. 14:30–36:20 John’s writing project ; maybe these aphorisms are more...

  9. S5 EP 4 - The Truth of Social Formation

    0:00–22:30 What does The Gay Science have to do with rhetoric? ; §57 “To the Realists”, §58 “Only as Creators”, §59 “We Artists” ; our drunken passion for reality and reason ; our ridiculous desire to transcend reality ; creation, destruction, and the insanity of maintenance ; is there a…

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  10. S5 EP 3 - A Taste for Thinking

    0:00–18:30 Intro; Approach for a second read; Nate gratuitously makes it about Hegel; §26 “What is Life?” ; the positivity of becoming; §23 “The Signs of Corruption” and §24 “Different Forms of Dissatisfaction” ; §39 “Changed Taste.” The active power of taste & decay; the non-linearity of…

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  11. S5 EP 2 - Questioning, Evaluating, and Other Injustices

    0:00-8:50 – Intro; §2 “Intellectual Conscience” ; My questioning, my certainty, my injustice. 8:50-28:30 – The instinct to evaluate; The art of questioning; The mystical allure of authorial intention; the inadequacy of quantification, the absurdity of grading, and other equivalences 28:40-39:45 –...

  12. S5 EP 1 - Becoming Bovine

    0:00–5:20 – Pedagogical query: “Why can’t white dudes follow simple instructions?” 5:20–18:50 – Intro to the new season; Structure of the book, tone, question of completeness, title: gay, joy, queer? 19:00–34:55 – Philosophy’s blind pursuit of truth, value of the veil with nothing behind it,...

  13. S4 EP 10 - White Mythology

    In this ep, we discuss Derrida's "White Mythology." Some themes and talking points: - metaphor as an organizing principle of philosophy - how to ground or "unground" a philosophical system - catachresis vs metaphor - Hegel vs Derrida - Heidegger's nostalgia

  14. S4 EP 9 - Dr. Brooke Rollins / Decisions and Responsibility in Sports and in Life

    In this special episode, Dr. Brooke Rollins, an Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, joins the Thinking With crew to discuss Derrida's "Nietzsche and the Machine" interview, as well as Brooke's research in risk, gambling, analytics (in sports and in life), and rhetorical theory.

  15. S4 EP 8 - From Restricted to General Economy

    In this ep, we talk through Derrida's essay, "From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism Without Reserve." Much of this episode is dedicated to teasing the orientational differences between Hegel and Derrida, as well as the difficulties and affordances, generally, of the post-Hegelian...

  16. S4 EP 7 - Structure, Sign, and Play

    In this episode, we discuss Derrida's essay, "Structure, Sign, and Play." Topics covered include: - the relationship between ethnocentrism and metaphysics - our culpability in metaphysical structures of engagement - Derrida’s version of rigor in critical theory - Derrida’s treatment of Levi…

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  17. S4 EP 6 - Signature Event Context

    In this episode, we talk through Derrida's "Signature Event Context," which is primarily a reading and extension of J.L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words. Our conversation covers, among other things, Derrida's notion of iterability, Austin's concepts of performativity and illocutionary force,...

  18. S4 EP 5 - Plato's Pharmacy II

    First ep of 2023! We took a lil break for the holidays. In this ep, we're talking about Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy" again, among other things. Good episode -- no effort in the episode description.

  19. S4 EP 4 - Plato's Pharmacy - The Limits of the Text

    In this episode, Nathaniel, John, and Nate talk through the first half of Derrida's "Plato's Pharmacy."

  20. S4 EP 3 - Grammatology: Under Erasure

    In this episode, we talk through the first 25 pages of Derrida's Of Grammatology: - the primacy of writing - embeddedness of metaphysics - who needs Saussure anymore? - signifiers, signifieds, and signifier/signifieds - writing instruction as constitutively theological

  21. S4 EP 2 - An Itinerant Episode

    We cover a lot of ground in this episode, but not a lot of this ground is tied directly to Derrida. In the beginning of the episode, we talk about the dynamics of appropriation, math, physics, the terminology of becoming, and Heraclitus. Towards the middle and end, we discuss the brevity of...

  22. S4 EP 1 - "Différance"

    Thinking With... is back! This season, we cover a variety of Derrida's texts, including "Différance," Of Grammatology, "Plato's Pharmacy," "Signature Event Context," "From General to Restricted Economy," "Nietzsche and the Machine," and "White Mythology." In this episode, we do a short intro…

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  23. S3 EP 10 - Outtakes

    Sampled conversations from previously recorded episodes on Heidegger that did not make the cut (but are still potentially worth your time).

  24. S3 EP 9 - What Counts as Philosophy

    0:00-16:00 as thinkers of movement, why don’t Hegel and Heidegger use the term, “becoming”? Heidegger’s celebrating of ancient Greek thought the duality of “Being” and “being” the performative undercurrent of representational thinking 16:00-29:00 H’s fetishizing and essentializing of Greek…

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  25. S3 EP 8 - How to NOT Answer Questions

    0:00-13:00 thinking as perceiving dwelling in the problematic slogans in philosophy H’s notion that philosophical questions cannot (structurally) have answers 13:00-19:00 thinking the movement of thinking rendering the unthought thinkable Heidegger’s ambitions as a philosopher 19:00-31:00 essence...

  26. S3 EP 7 - Beating the Authenticity Horse Again

    0:00-13:00 teaching deconstructive moves in the classroom meta-reflection Nathaniel’s exploratory essay assignment 13:00-27:00 AF / AM critical discourse Teaching Ta Nehisi Coates an argument in favor of difficult writing 27:00-46:00 Heidegger’s mysticism / nostalgia the ambiguity of H’s notion…

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  27. S3 EP 6 - Teaching Constructivism (Provisionally)

    0:00-16:00 Heidegger’s central question diagnosing representational thinking propriety / purity in Heidegger the fascism built into the text 16:00-38:00 Heidegger’s disdain for commonness and traditional thinking differences between Heidegger and Hegel social constructionism difficulties with...

  28. S3 EP 5 – Heidegger's Eternal Return

    The Heidegger Files: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lecture X With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Time Complicates Being, Eternal Return of the Same, Deliverance from Revenge, Let Will be Will (Start-11:55) Why does the “same” return?; what’s up with the...

  29. S3 EP 4 - The Most Profound Thought

    0:00-13:00 teaching on zoom unpacking theory for students lectures 9 and 10 what makes Heidegger and this text so compelling how Heidegger rehabilitates Nietzsche 13:00-24:00 the “treasure of metaphysics” for Heidegger how Heidegger and Derrida relate to metaphysics the relative inescapability of...

  30. S3 EP 3 - Training the Last Metaphysician

    0:00-4:00 Nate trying to learn the game, “Go” John’s golf game 4:00-20:00 instinct or “feel” vs analysis / cognition Heidegger’s commitment to authenticity (and to pluralism / becoming) Heidegger’s strange etymological interpretation of “blinking” 20:00-33:00 the importance of Nietzsche for...

  31. S3 EP 2 - Mood Playlists in Philosophy

    0:00-4:00 The therapeutics of reading philosophy 4:00-9:00 Heidegger’s pace and style preliminary reflections on H’s notion of authenticity essences of being and thinking 9:00-23:00 critique of representational or technological language abbreviations, acronyms, etc. styles and tones of thinking...

  32. S3 EP 1 - Heidegger: Affirmations and Irritations

    The Heidegger Files Focus: What is Called Thinking? By Martin Heidegger Lectures I, II, III With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Opening Gambit: Thinking is not simply a mental event but always emerges in-relation; the irksome problem of essences; antagonistic progressivism...

  33. S2 EP 14 - Aparallel Evolution and Other Pedagogies

    In the season finale of Deleuzecast, we talk through the appendix of Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: "The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy." 0:00-14:00 difference and identity atomism clinamen 14:00-23:00 color and perception color as object or as relation species differences limits of perspectivism...

  34. S2 EP 13 - The Answer

    Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Sixth Series of Language,” “Thirty-Third Series of Alice’s Adventures” and “Thirty-Fourth Series of Primary Order and Secondary Organization” With: “Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street Nathaniel’s excellent sense of “the cool” (Start-1:35)…

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  35. S2 EP 12 – Same Same, but Different ~or~ To Infinitive, But Not Beyond

    Focus The Logic of Sense “Twenty-Fourth Series of the Communication of Events” With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, & Nathaniel Street John Discovers Conditioner (Start–2:20) Deleuze Contra Hegel; Productivity of Distance (2:25–18:10) Idioms and Defense Mechanisms; Social Media,...

  36. S2 EP 11 – Hard Times with Time

    Focus: Logic of Sense “22nd Series – Porcelain and Volcano” and “23rd Series of the Aion” With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Hard Times with Time (Start – 5:45) Derrida and the Deconstructed Present; Vulgar Time (6:00-11:48) Kant, Time/Space, Faculties; Heidegger and the...

  37. S2 EP 10 - No Affirmation. Not Now

    Focus: Logic of Sense "Twentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic Philosophy" and "Twenty-First Series of the Event" With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street hair / beard care pedagogical approaches to intro classes / infusing theory in the classroom interpretive lenses...

  38. S2 EP 9 – Two Ways of Unravelling String

    Focus: The Logic of Sense – "Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis," Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers," and "Nineteenth Series of Humor" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Teaching the Enthymeme (Start-4:30) Taste…

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  39. S2 EP 8 – No Deleuze

    Focus: Not Deleuze With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street Superfans; Calcifying/Undoing Mimetic Rhythms; Nietzche’s Mustache Oil; Impossibility of Non-Individuation (Start-16:45) Podcast Pedagogy; Instructional Tidiness; Heuristics of Learning; Narcissism and the Undoing of…

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  40. S2 EP 7 - Heights, Depths, and Other Surfaces

    Focus: Logic of Sense "Sixteenth Series of the Static Ontological Genesis" With: Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street - on being lost when reading Deleuze - an attempt at an intro to Leibniz - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - immanence / transcendence - 3 images of…

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  41. Bo Burnham's Inside

    For this special episode, Nate, Nathaniel, and John are joined by Caroline Wigmore, and the group riffs in response to Bo Burnham's recent Netflix comedy special Inside. We discuss different styles of contemporary comedy, the role of self-awareness in critique, the dynamics of cancel culture,...

  42. S2 EP 6 - Amateur Philosophy, Expertise, and Intimacy

    Focus: Logic of Sense "Fourteenth Series of Double Causality" and "Fifteenth Series of Singularities" With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street

  43. S2 EP 5 - Becoming Connotative

    Focus: The Logic of Sense "Twelfth Series of the Paradox" and "Thirteenth Series of the Schizophrenic and the Little Girl" With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-16:00 the metaphorics of the schizophrenic Alice in Wonderland Deleuze’s style of reading / diagnostics...

  44. S2 EP 4 - It's About Time

    Focus: The Logic of Sense "Tenth Series of the Ideal Game" and "Eleventh Series of Nonsense" With: Caddie Alford, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-15:00 Deleuze’s concept of time kairos and chronos the challenge of not thinking linearly time vs relationality 15:00-32:00 Kant’s concept…

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  45. S2 EP 3 - The Structure of Chance

    Focus: The Logic of Sense "Seventh Series of Esoteric Words," "Eighth Series of Structure," and "Ninth Series of the Problematic" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, Brooke Rollins, and Nathaniel Street What are the stakes of Deleuze’s project? (Start) Structure/Event and Series...

  46. S2 EP 2 - Parataxis and Teaching

    Focus: The Logic of Sense "Fourth Series of Duality," "Fifth Series of Sense," and "Sixth Series on Serialization" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-15:00 - the word "sense" - Deleuze on Carroll (vs. Derrida on Austin) - selective reading 15:00-25:00…

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  47. S2 EP 1 - Starting into Sense: Plato and the "Field" of Rhetoric

    Focus: Logic of Sense "First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming" and "Second Series of Paradoxes of Surface Events" With: Caddie Alford, Nate DeProspo, John Muckelbauer, and Nathaniel Street 0:00-8:00 - why we each want to read Deleuze 8:00-13:00 - Deleuze vs Hegel's writing style 13:00-16:00 -...

  48. Intro to Deleuzecast

    In this brief episode, Nathaniel and Nate preview the forthcoming second season of the podcast, in which we dive into Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense. We also discuss the neuroses of the writing process and finish with some NBA talk. When season 2 releases in a week, Nathaniel, Nate, and John...

  49. EP 12 - The Essence of Genius

    EP 12 - The Essence of Genius

  50. EP 11 - The Language of Theory

    0-6 philosophy as "bad writing" 7-13 the case of Judith Butler 14-19 thinking and emotions (scapegoating) 19-24 developmental writing/from simplicty to complexity 24-36 the impact of grammar on thinking 37-42 beyond representing/universals 43-49 animals 50-54 writing that is "messy" v "clean"…

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“Thinking With..." is a pedagogical experiment that serves as an invitation to think along with the text, with us, and with each other. We are three academics who specialize in Rhetorical Theory: Nate DeProspo (Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College), John Muckelbauer (Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina), and Nathaniel Street (Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University).

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